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BrowserStack allows you to run automated Selenium tests on a variety of platforms, browsers, and devices on the cloud. Since Gwen is built on Selenium and also supports remote web driver, you can easily run your Gwen tests “as is” on BrowserStack too. As of gwen-web version 2.25.1, all you need to do is provide some runtime properties.

Remote URL

If you sign up for a BrowserStack account, you will receive a user name and access key. Add the following settings to your gwen.properties file to configure your connection to BrowserStack:

Target Capabilities

BrowserStack provides a neat capabilities page that can generate capabilities settings for you. Simply navigate to that page and select your desired target platform and browser. The capabilities settings will be generated for you and displayed as shown below:

This example shows the capabilities settings for a Chrome browser on the Mac OS X High Sierra Platform. To configure Gwen to use these settings, create a new properties file containing each of the settings above as follows:

You can save this file anywhere you like. For example, you could save it in your current working directory as chrome-mac.properties.

You can create a separate properties file in the same manner for each other platform, browser, or device you wish to target.

Execution

Now to run your Gwen features on BrowserStack, simply invoke Gwen passing in the above properties file (through the -p option) as follows. This example will run all features in the features/google folder on BrowserStack targeting the Chrome browser on the Mac.

./gwen -b -p chrome-mac.properties features/google

To target a different platform or browser, just pass in the properties file containing those capabilities instead.

If you logon to browserstack.com, you will see the results of all the remotely executed web driver steps and a video recording of the feature execution too.